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Um, no I don't have any ads. Typically you get ads if you have a low end device or if it's from a carrier, the carrier will put bloat. But I got my Galaxy S23 unlocked from BestBuy and I don't have any ads or carrier stuff, and the Samsung bloat isn't even that bad, most of them can be uninstalled. The photo editor is literally within the gallery app, you just tap the little pen icon that shows up when you tap on an image. I don't know why you have ads or require a Samsung account, neither apply to me.
It was an unlocked samsung phone as well, an S9 to be specific. All the bloat on there is from samsung themselves and it frequently sent samsung ads as notifications (which couldn't be disabled) and had a constant notification telling the user to sign into their samsung account (which couldn't be dismissed or disabled).
The gallery app had ads between the images, that's what I meant.
If that isn't bad bloat, I don't know what is.
Um... I think you might have malware on your phone. I've literally never seen an actual ad inside a default gallery app in any smartphone I ever had, including budget phones. I did a search on Galaxy S9 and anything about ads but all I could find is people finding out their phone is infected from malware after being advised to scan their phone by commenters. Can you post an image of the ad?
Also you might wanna run a malware scan. Malwarebytes is said to be reputable.
Edit: Do you used pirated apps? No judgement, just curious. Pirated apps are one of the common ways to get infected.
The phone showed ad notifications right out of the box and got software updates without issues, so definitely no malware.
Not sure when the gallery thing started but it was definitely the samsung app (which is a system app so you can't do anything to it without root).
The phone is gone now because it got slower over time until it became unusable. Androbench showed that the eMMC was perfectly fine, so that was due to updates.